Edited by Alessandra Goggio, Peggy Katelhön and Moira Paleari Journal website: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline Keywords: Berlin Wall; border; narrative; identity; literature; linguistics; visual arts. Thirty years after the German reunification, looking back at the construction and the fall of the Berlin Wall – two watershed events that completely changed the course of History, not only of Germany but of Europe itself – does not simply mean questioning the...

‘I grasped thoughts which are so clear that I hope to set them down soon. They concern politics.’ Walter Benjamin, Letter to Schoen, September 1919 Like many of his other works, Walter Benjamin’s reflections on the concept of politics have a fragmentary character. In the early 1920s, Walter Benjamin worked intensively on a project that he came to refer to simply as his Politics ; but even though this study appears to have been largely completed, most of the resulting texts...

Nizami Ganjavi International Centre and Azerbaijan Comparative Literature Association in collaboration with the Nazionale di Napoli are pleased to invite interested scholars and Ph.D. students from related fields to submit proposals for a conference Cross-Cultural Matches and Dispatches: Nizami and Dante which is to be held on 9-10 October 2020, the eve of the 700 th anniversary of Dante. The conference aims to make cross-cultural comparisons of two great medieval figures...

First Conference of the ICLA Research Committee on Literatures/Arts/Media (CLAM) Transcodification: Literatures - Arts - Media Department of Humanities – Excellence Program 2018-2022 July 1-3, 2020 – University of L’Aquila (Italy) PRÉSENTATION The transition of narratives, characters, themes and iconic elements from one code of representation to another represents one of the most fundamental processes through which the literary and artistic fields evolve,...

Although unquestionably all-pervasive within the history of modern and contemporary press, the ‘review form’ has been to present an understudied practice. In fact, this multi-faceted, cross-disciplinary form that has persistently accompanied the different phases in the evolution of “print-capitalism” has hardly been analysed from a theoretical perspective. This dismissal by the academic world is certainly peculiar, if not manifestly contradictory; however, it significantly testifies of the...

A gloomy parenthesis in the radiant belle époque, the Affaire Dreyfus (1894-1906) was the most notable political and judicial scandal of the Third French Republic. Soon, the story of the Jewish Captain crossed the Channel and became, in Great Britain, a true sensation. The case was everywhere – in the press, on stage, in novels, even on the big screen – and for a few years, it resonated with the political and cultural history of fin-de-siècle Britain: the end of the Victorian age, the...